Compare that to the northern part of the state from Orlando to Jacksonville and across to Pensacola, which tends to run to the far more conservative old style Deep South side of the aisle (the panhandle is sometimes referred to as Lower Alabama) with its large rural areas and middle-class retirees who are deeply suspicious of anything that smells slightly of progressivism beyond 1948.

The panhandle is a strange portion of land sandwiched between Ohio—to which we feel superior because it's full of rubes and farmers—and Pennsylvania—to which we feel inferior because it is has better roads and the Steelers.